| Released under: |
GPL License. |
| Current version: |
1.2.22 (September 18, 2009).
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| Price: |
Free.
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From FluxBB website :
FluxBB is a free open source forum application designed to be fast, light and user friendly. Version of FluxBB, currently under development, adds a powerful extension system enabling you to create the forum that you really need.
Since the PunBB rights solding to a commercial company in 2007, FluxBB is now the official fork of PunBB.
Review Updates
- March 1, 2010: Update with FluxBB 1.2.22.
Server & Clients Requirements
| Server Requirements |
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Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
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- Linux
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows XP
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Web Server
Web servers host the forum software.
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- Apache 1.3
- Apache 2.0/2.2
- Microsoft IIS
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Languages
Development language.
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Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
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| Browsers & Clients Requirements |
Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
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- Mozilla Firefox 3
- Mozilla Firefox 2
- Mozilla Firefox 1
- Opera
- Safari
- Konqueror
- Internet Explorer 7
- Internet Explorer 6
- Chrome
- Mozilla SeaMonkey
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Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
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Localization
Languages supported by FluxBB.
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Yes.
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Bangla
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Croatian (Hrvatski)
- Czech
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Farsi
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu (Pakistan)
- Vietnamese
The full list is available at the FluxBB Download page.
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It is adviced to install FluxBB software on Linux box, with Apache web server and a open source database, like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
One particular feature of FluxBB is to support SQLite database, which does not need any database additional daemon. SQLite is a database API, which uses the SQL query language and that only use one file locally. These is particurlarly useful for PHP hosting that does not provide any database connection.
Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Flat/Threaded |
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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No. |
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Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
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No |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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- Forum Categories
- URL Redirection Forum
- Sub Sections
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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No |
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Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
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Unknown |
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Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
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No |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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No |
| Posts |
Post Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
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Emoticons
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Yes |
Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
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No |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Yes |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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No |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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No |
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Once again, minimal forum features are implemented. However, these features are technically sufficent to support a classical forum.
These absences have however a very interesting positive point : FluxBB is a very fast software, and does not need T1 connection for every members of your community.